Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Mystery of the Opening of Heaven V
Meng Hanyan looked at me, with a flickering light reflected in his eyes, and as soon as he finished saying this, the disappointment on his face was a little thicker.
It felt like I was being stabbed in the heart. If this sentence were to be said by other people, maybe I didn't feel much of it, but when it came out of Meng Hanyan's mouth, it still made me a little ashamed. After several years of experience in the rivers and lakes, I know that the rivers and lakes are unpredictable, and people are most afraid of mutual suspicion, once there is a beginning, the result can only be slowly become strangers, although the dream of Hanyan does not have too much to show, but where can I not see it? I am afraid that since she said this, she has not trusted me very much.
I stiffened my head and raised my head and said, "Let Brother Lin smile, it's just that people can't help themselves in the rivers and lakes, and you can always live longer with more thoughts." ”
Meng Hanyan smiled and said, "Everyone is going to die, why do you care about the length? ”
I said lightly: "Is it worth doing for you to attack Minzhou City?"
Meng Hanyan also raised his head slightly, a little carelessly, but said word by word: "Of course." ”
She didn't say much, but these two words were extremely firm and powerful. I snorted and said, "If you attack the city, it will be the people of Li who will suffer, and this is worth it?"
Meng Hanyan stood up, as if he didn't care about the annoyance in my words, but smiled and said, "Brother Gu, if I say it's worth it, will you still recognize me as a friend?"
I don't know why she suddenly turned to this, and I didn't know how to answer it for a while. In my heart, I have always had a love for Meng Hanyan, not to mention not recognizing her as a friend, if I really don't recognize it, that's a lie. It's just that now when it comes to the border war between the two countries, I don't want to make the slightest concession.
I looked at Meng Hanyan for a while before frowning and said, "Why are you telling me this? Who are you?" Also, as far as I know, although the Immortal Hall Disaster began in the extreme west of the Western Regions, Tubo was also persecuted by it, and all the tribes wanted to get rid of it quickly, since you and your father were Tubo people, how could you and your father join the Eternal Life Hall?"
I asked so many questions at once, but Meng Hanyan didn't say anything, just smiled faintly and turned his head to look at Kufeng Bridge. The rain outside the umbrella was gone, the stars were scattered in pieces, the night was deep, and from a distance, the Kufeng Bridge seemed to be splashed with a layer of black ink, blurred.
After a while, Meng Hanyan suddenly said, "Who am I, Brother Gu already knows, so why do you need to ask again?"
Probably I asked like this repeatedly, but Meng Hanyan was afraid that she was already impatient, and the tone of her words at this time became as indifferent as before. I thought about it for a while, and said uncertainly: "This side of Tubo is the territory of the Yalong Jue'a royal tribal group, if my guess is correct, it was also the Tubo tribe of the Yalong Jue'a tribe that attacked Minzhou City the night before, right?"
If that Tubo army is really from the Yalong Jue'a royal tribe, presumably Menghanyan and they are also subordinate to this force.
Thinking about it, Meng Hanyan raised his eyebrows and suddenly said, "I didn't expect that Brother Gu also knows Yalong Jue'a, it seems that you really know a lot about the domestic situation in Tubo." ”
I said: "I don't know much about the domestic situation in Tibet, but I just heard about it, and I asked Brother Lin for advice." ”
"I don't dare to give advice. She walked out of the umbrella, raised her head to look at the night sky, and said, "Brother Gu, you guessed right, I am indeed from the Yalong Jue'a tribe, but there are some things you still don't want to know, and I won't say it." It's not too early, it's time for the little sister to go back. Wine!"
When she said this, the wine master who was standing on the side stepped forward and hugged his fists and said, "Miss." ”
Meng Hanyan said: "You go and send Brother Gu off." She turned her head to look at me, a smile suddenly appeared on her expressionless face, and said, "Brother Gu, there will be a meeting later." ”
After that, she walked behind the umbrella without looking back, unwilling to say anything more to me. Behind him, Chop Qing and the two maids hurriedly followed, and when the four of them walked out of the big umbrella, the maid named Xiaoyue opened a beautiful umbrella to cover the top of Menghanyan's head, turned her head and glared at me fiercely, and immediately turned around.
Looking at the gradually blurred figures of several of them, I suddenly regretted a little, and my heart felt like I had knocked over the Baiwei bottle, a mess, I never thought that this meeting with Meng Hanyan would end in such a stiff scene. I wanted to keep it, but my feet seemed to have roots, and I couldn't move.
She is a Tibetan. I've been thinking about it for a long time, and I still can't believe it. The situation between the Great Song Dynasty and the Tibetan border was tense, and the wars were frequent, and I heard a lot of what others said, and even a little numb, especially this trip to the Western Regions, which touched me more deeply. Regarding the affairs between countries, I still maintain the attitude of leaving my left ear in and right ear out, it is not because I am ruthless to my homeland, but I really don't have this ability, similar to things between countries, and it is not my turn to worry about people like me at all. It's just that what I didn't expect was that Meng Hanyan would be involved.
I thought a little dizzy. At this time, Meng Hanyan and the others had already bypassed the mound, and the figure could no longer be seen, and the night rain was drowsy, and only the faint light was still flashing under my feet. I've walked too much on the rivers and lakes, and I don't dare to trust others easily, even if I am facing Meng Hanyan, the woman who once saved me, I can't help but guess.
Just thinking about it, the cold voice of the wine master suddenly came from his ears: "Gu Shaoxia, please!"
I turned my head to see the gaze of the wine master. The face of the wine master was not very good-looking at this time, when he brought me over before, he was still kind and pleasant, but now his face is gloomy. Compared with calling me "Brother Gu" before, he called me "Gu Shaoxia" at this time, but he also added some ridicule.
I didn't know what to say, I just saluted him. The wine master didn't mean to say more to me, so he turned around and took me to the Kufeng Bridge.
Since chasing Zhu Er last night, it has been almost a whole night, if you count it according to the time in the hinterland of the Central Plains, it is already dawn, but this place still belongs to the Western Regions, and it is still very dark.
It has rained for a few days, and the Kufeng Bridge is also quite slippery, and the stones on the bridge deck are mottled with bad deeds, and the cracks are full of moss, and some of the moss is very vigorous, and the feet even seem to be stepping on the lawn.
The river was rolling, the river was mixed with mud, and it was slightly pale at night, and there were many broken wood and grass leaf stumps in the water, which flowed down the river into one side of the Kufeng Bridge, and then floated out from the other side.
I looked at the rushing water under the bridge, and looked at the place where Meng Hanyan left, and suddenly I was inexplicably confused.
Minzhou City used to occupy a large area, and it is said that when the Western Regions were not chaotic, this Kufeng Bridge and the land to the west were all within the scope of Minzhou City. Although Minzhou City is not among the top fortresses in the Great Song Dynasty, it is also quite prosperous. However, I don't know when it began, Minzhou City, which sits on both sides of the river, can only retreat to the east bank, and even the Kufeng Bridge in the territory has become a boundary monument between the two countries.
I didn't have any concept of border battles before, but when I really talked about it, I only slowly learned about it since this trip to the Western Regions. Minzhou City can have such a situation now, I am afraid I don't know how many large and small battles it has taken to form. The witches in the Western Regions are brutal, the insects are ferocious and ruthless, even though the Great Song army is elite, but to fight with a country like Tubo that is good at witchcraft in the Jingcong wild forest, I am afraid it will be greatly discounted, not to mention how brave and good the Tubo people are, just the witch Gu mandrill raised in their clan is enough to give the Great Song army a headache. If such a fierce beast really collided on a flat and wide land, the Minzhou defenders would not be able to resist it at all, and if there were ten thousand dangerous mountains as a natural barrier, it would be much easier. Probably, this is also the reason why the Minzhou defenders retreated to Minzhou City.
However, this time in the battle of Minzhou City, why did the Tubo tribe suddenly attack? What role did Meng Hanyan and the others play in it? As the saint of the Changsheng Hall, there were several deputy altar masters such as the Cutting Love, the Wine and the Taoist around her, and now the rise of the Changsheng Hall is like a flood of mountains and wilderness, they do not support the altar, but appear here to assist the Tubo tribe in attacking the Great Song Border Pass fortress? Even if I want to break my scalp, I can't think of why.
Could it be that the Changshengtang will make any big moves in Tibet? If a Jianghu sect can affect the affairs between countries, then the Changshengtang's action is not insignificant. If there is really any conspiracy for the Changshengtang to collude with Tubo, then their attack on Minzhou City the night before is only the beginning, and there may be a second and third time, and I don't know how many people will die at that time. But Tubo and Changshengtang have always been at odds, and I can't think of any reason for their two forces to unite, and Meng Hanyan said that he was not from Changshengtang, what is the reason for this?
I was thinking about it when the wine master who was walking in front suddenly stopped. This Kufeng Bridge is not long, it is not short, and before we know it, we have come to this end of the bridge.
The wine master stood still, but he only turned his back to me, looked into the distance with his hands and said, "The old man is sent here, you can go." ”
Crossing the Kufeng Bridge is the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, and the wine master may still be angry at this time, and he is too lazy to give me a ride. I hesitated, but still hugged him and said, "Thank you seniors for sending you off, and the juniors will say goodbye." ”
turned around and was about to leave, but he didn't take a few steps, but he heard the Taoist suddenly calling: "Gu Tian, you really didn't take refuge in the Great Song Dynasty, did you?"
I stopped, turned to look, and saw that the wine master was looking at me, and there was no expression on his face. I immediately clenched my fists again, and said with a straight face: "Seniors, what I said before is true, heaven and earth can be learned, and there is no deception to my predecessors." ”
The wine lord didn't speak for a while, as if he was thinking about something. After a while, he let out a long sigh and said, "If that's the case, then it couldn't be better, alas!"
He was sighing as he said, "Great," and probably didn't believe me. I laughed dryly and said, "Seniors can't believe it?"
The wine master shook his head and said, "The old man doesn't believe it, but he's just a little worried." ”
Another meaning of worry is distrust. I smiled again and said, "Seniors, you can rest assured, although Gu Tian is not very powerful, he still does what he says, and tonight's events will not be told to anyone." ”
"You're wrong, I'm not worried about this. ”
"What do you mean?"
"I'm worried about whether you'll be Mademoiselle's enemy in the future. “
"Enemy?" I was stunned and said in surprise: "Why did the senior say that? The dream girl has a life-saving grace for the subordinates, Gu has always remembered it, and it is too late to repay her, how can she be her enemy?"
The wine master smiled slightly, stretched out his hand to hold the stone fence of Kufeng Bridge, raised his head and said: "Don't say it so early, before tonight, the old man didn't believe this, but now I'm not so sure." “
I frowned and said, "What's that?"
The wine is humane: "It's because of the border between Tubo and the Great Song Dynasty." He looked at me, his eyes shining, and said, "I didn't expect that in the interests of the country and the nation, you should have such a great righteousness at such a young age, which is really unimaginable." “
He wasn't saying it as a mockery, but I could hear it, and it wasn't a compliment. I paused and said, "Seniors, born and raised in Si, Song Tu is the place where I was born and raised, and the younger generations naturally don't want to see being violated by foreign races." “